Here are the texts from the post-its left on the Transportation poster board from our meeting on the Houghton Everest Neighborhood Center (HENC) meeting of April 1, 2015:TransportationEntrance, exits, streets, CKC Access, Transit, movement of auto & people

Mixed use will bring in more children. Lakeview Elementary School is at maximum capacity.

Please plan for safe areas for school bus stops – off the main streets.

When property redevelops put parking underground with underpass under street to connect to other BC area.

Transportation

Traffic will drive everything about HC. Solve this first, then we can see what is possible.

Reduce min parking requirements and replace with maximum parking limits. Encourage people who want to bus, work in neighborhood, use CKC for walk/bike.

Transportation major problem will get worse. I do not see space to expand roads . Need better public transportation.

Consolidate entrances & exits at Met Market & PCC/Houghton Mkt.

Suggested change –

Have cars enter into PCC shopping zone through upper entry off 68th & exit out the lower driveway to increase traffic flow.

Don’t let people’s fear of traffic prevent high density. Can have density with minimal traffic impact if parking requirements are sensible.

Traffic – no further dev until 6th St S, 108th, 68th NE are resolved.

Create a roundabout to assist with traffic flow around center.

We need a corridor study for transportation (like the 100th Street Corridor Study in Juanita) to look at traffic & transit & bike & walk & parking in area as a whole.

Need multi-family housing that will attract residents that use transit/CKC, not people who want to drive cars everywhere.

Include policies to require public access to corridor when the 3.6 property redevelops in BC.

Assume that use of public transportation will increase over time

Make plans that work for more buses and light rail not only for cars.

Solve parking problem

9th Ave

Center

From the Potala experience I think the hardest thing on transportation issues is to get the city to look at making street amenable to desired development rather than thinking of streets that don’t work well as fixed & making development work around them. Example: 10th will become impassable when Potala is built.

Transportation

Already bad, increased density/stories/housing will make it impossible. A neighborhood center should serve the neighborhood.

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